Pentagon Announces US Withdrawal From Afghanistan 90% Complete

US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan more than 90% complete, as announced Tuesday by the Ministry of Defense.

The Pentagon has claimed to have officially delivered seven former US bases to Afghan security forces and which evacuated the equivalent of nearly 1,000 equipment shipments on C-17 aircraft country, before the September deadline to complete the withdrawal.

Released in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the war in Afghanistan claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Afghans and some 2,400 American soldiersas well as a fortune in the White House.

Americans began to leave Afghanistan, leaving behind a deeply divided country that could fall back on the Taliban, determined to impose the same fundamentalist regime they applied when they were in power between 1996 and 2001.

What for the United States began as a simple mission to expel Al Qaeda from its sanctuaries has become all-out war against the Taliban. Despite its military might, Washington failed to win.

The future of Afghanistan after the departure of the last foreign troops, expected no later than September 11 is very uncertain.

The United States plans to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of August, a few days earlier than originally planned., although it maintains a diplomatic presence in the country, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday.

“For now, we hope to finish it by the end of August”, Psaki said in his daily press conference.

The spokesperson further confirmed that, “Before the withdrawal process ends” in August, the United States will be moving thousands of translators and other Afghan workers who have supported American forces out of Afghanistan. during the last two decades of war.

Although Psaki declined to give more details “for security reasons”, the channel CNN reported on Friday that Washington is negotiating with Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to welcome some of these Afghan workers, as they complete a long process to obtain a visa to enter the United States.

The New York Times announced in June that there are over 18,000 Afghans who have worked as translators, engineers, drivers, security guards, “fixers” (guides) and embassy workers during the war and who find themselves in bureaucratic limbo after applying for this visa, known as SIV. These candidates also 53,000 relatives.

“Our plan is move these people somewhere outside of Afghanistan before ending our military withdrawal”, Subrayó Psaki.

(With information from AFP and EFE)

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